Vehicle body



July 20, 1926.

H. E. SPEYER VEHICLE BODY Filed Sept. 15, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l July 20, 19 6- H. E. SPEYER VEHICLE BODY Filed Sept. 15, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheetv 2 Patented July 20, 1926.

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HERBERT E. SPEYEE, OF KNGXVILLE, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL CO VERTIBLE BODY COMPANY, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, A COEPGXATIGN (It? TENNESSEE.

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Application filed September 15, 1923. Serial No. 662,967.

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w to 'ined convertible ve icle bodies 1 A i v i e having seats, a part or waich mav be sinned to adapt the vehicle to mo il- This improvement relates particnla e invention is to pro- (111(38 a vehicle body having a front seat and a rea seat and having an end the rear seat being adapted to be conveniently moved forward and nested with the front seat n compact form, whereby the space in vehicle body rearward of the two l seats is available for receiving freight modities.

The in'iprovement is especially applicaole to autoinobles.

In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. l is a side eievation with the right hand side broken away and showing tle rear seat in position at the rear and showing the end gate closed;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the rear seat moved forward and nested with the front seatand showin the end gate open;

Fig. 3 is an upright section on the line, 33, of Fig. 1, looking toward the right;

Fig. 4 is an upright section on the line, 4-, of F 2, looking toward the right;

Figs. 5 and 6 are details of means for holding the end ate inthe open position and in the closed position.

These drawings show my improved vehicle body in a form suited for placing on a Ford automobile chassis.

Referring to said drawings, is is the tloor of the automobile body. A A are the side walls. A is the end gate. The end gate is hinged at A to the rear end of the floor. A top, not shown. may be supported above the body in any desired manner. The end gate is held in the ciosed position by means of a hook, A, at each upper corner of the end gate. Brace chains. A are attached to the ends of the end gate and to the ends of the side wall to hold the end in the open or horizontal position.

The front seat, 13, is placed in the usual position. The back, B at the front seat extends from the floor upward and reaches from one side wall to the other. At the rear the back, B is formed with a recess, B extending from one wall, A to the other and which is to receive the rear seat when the rear part of the automobile body is to be cleared for hauling freight or for other use. The rear seat, C, normally rests on ledges or shoulders, C such a ledge being supported on the inner face of each of the side walls, A Said led es reach forward from the rear end of the side wall far igh to receive about two-thirds of the depth of the seat. To the seat, C, is applied back, C ha ing its lower edge joined the rear of the seat by means of which permit folding the bat-l: flatwise upon the uppe face of orwaro. the seat.

The forward part of the rear seat is supported at each end by a carrying bar, D. r-rhich has its rear end hinged to the seat at D The opposite end of each of said bars hinged at D between the front seat and the rear seat, to the vehicle body. The hinges at D and D are on axes which are horizon-- tal at d transverse to the length of the auto mobile body, wl'iereby the *arrying bars, L are adapted to move in upright planes along the inner "aces of the side walls, A). On each bar, D, under the forward X art of the rear seat, C, is a lined lug, D which is of proper height to form a support for the forward part of the seat. This lug also prevents the seat from turning between the bars, D, when the seat has been moved from its rear position.

When the back, C has been turned 1 ward to lie tlatwise upon the seat, C, said seat and back and the carrying bars, D, ma; be together moved forward and downwasd, the bars turning on the hinges, D Sail hinges are so positioned as to give the b' D, the right length to deliver the seat, C; the back, G, into the rece 7 at t is i .17 of the front seat back, B the rear seat C. and the rear hack seat.v C remaining folded against each other and taking positions parallel to the plane of the front seat bacln On the rear part of the lower face of the rear seat, C, is a handle, D, which may be used for drawing the rear seat and rear back and the bars, D, away from the front seat rearward into normal or rest position.

iVhen the rear seat is in its rear position. the carrying bars are oblique and serve as braces for preventing forward movement of said seat. When the rear seat is in its for-- ward position, the bars, D, are again chin and serve as braces to hold. t e rear seat ing its lower edge coupled foldably to the rear seat, ledges on the side walls for supporting the rear partof the rearseat, a carrying bar adjacent each side Wall and being in operative. relation between its ends with the seat to support the front'part of the seat and having one end hinged tothe rear seat and having its other end hinged to the body between; the seats inposition to permit said carrying bars to carry the rear seat and rear seat back forward and allow them to nest close to the front seat, substantially as described.

2. In a vehicle body, the, combination with a floor and side sills, of a stationary front seat and a rear seat, a rear seat back having its lower edge coupled foldably to the rear seat, ledges on the side walls for supporting the rear part of the rear seat,a carrying bar adjacent each side wall and having one end hinged to the rear seat and having its other end hinged to the body between the seats in position to permit said carrying bars to carry the rear seat andrear seat baclrforward and allow them to nest close to the front seat. and a lug on each of said carrying bars in position to support the forward part of the rear seat when that seat is in its rear position, substantially as described.

3. In a vehiolebody, the combination with a floor and side walls, of a stationary front seat, a rear seat, supports for the rear seat. a handle on the under face of the rear sort and a carrying bar adjacent each side Wall and having one end hinged to the rear se and having its other end hinged to the body between the seats in position to permit said carrying bars to carry the rear seat forward and allow it to nest close to the front seat, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof 1 have signed my name, this 8th day of September, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three HERBERT E. SPEYER. 

